During this Nobel Prize season where we celebrate the annual winners, Nature has gone through the Nobel archives and compiled a top ten list of the most nominated, but never won people. The "winners" are:
The Nobel commission doesn't reveal nomination information for at least 50 years, so one can't say who really has the most nominations. There are a plethora of reasons these people never won the award because the prestige of the prize brings in a variety of factors that have little to do with merit.
"A kaleidoscope of human agency is necessarily involved in awarding the Nobel Prize, as with any other prize," says Friedman. "There are no grounds for assuming the winners of the Nobel Prize constitute a unique population of the very 'best' in science."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 17 2016, @10:20AM
Big difference.
Henry V, et al. were actually within weapons range of the opposition.
Bill Maher was exactly right when he called USA cowardly for the way it uses weapons (cruise missiles in that case) with zero danger to USA's aggressor forces.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 17 2016, @06:51PM
Well, it IS more manly to go in, guns a-blazin', and taking out a whole town. Or just carpet-bombing it to hell. The precision attacks that severely limit collateral damage really is the sissy way of doing things.
(Score: 1) by Francis on Monday October 17 2016, @09:00PM
Except that if you don't have boots on the ground taking some risk, you have no way of knowing if that's a wedding party you're targeting.
The cruise missiles are cowardly, so are the drone strikes. If we don't care enough about the target to put our troops in harms way, perhaps we should consider if it's really necessary to blow it up. With the exception of robots meant to disarm explosives, robots have no place in combat. All they do is encourage the people with the robots to start conflicts they have not business starting as now none of their people are going to be killed.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 17 2016, @10:04PM
Robert Hamner (and executive producer Gene Roddenberry) had this figured out in the 1960s.
A Taste of Armageddon [wikipedia.org]
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 17 2016, @09:18PM
Dropping bombs on weddings and funerals is the opposite of "manly".
Dropping bombs on private homes, and in the process murdering women and children (even in adjacent homes), is the opposite of "precision".
Murdering non-combatants while there is no danger to the USAian aggressor on the other side of the planet is cowardly.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 17 2016, @10:07PM
So just go back to dropping a bomb and taking out the whole block: be a real Man.
Limiting causalities is for sissies.